Children & families
For children aged 4–8, parents, caregivers, grandparents, extended family, and the people who share stories with them.
A children’s picture book
Families don’t all look the same, and that’s okay.
Families Are Perfectly Different is a warm, thoughtful story about family diversity, belonging, and the differences children notice as they grow.
4–8Recommended age
R195Pre-order price
SAPhysical edition
The Book
Different doesn’t mean incomplete.
Through Luthando and Luvuyo’s story, children encounter questions about family, difference, and what it means to feel whole.
The story creates space for curiosity, questions, and longing without making difference feel like something is missing. At its heart is a simple belief: every child deserves to feel that their family is valued and that they belong.
Who the book is for
A story for children and a conversation for the adults around them.
The way adults understand family differences influences how children learn to understand themselves and one another.
Adults who care about children
For future parents, mentors, aunts, uncles, godparents, and any adult who wants to show up well in a child’s life — regardless of whether they have children of their own.
Schools & libraries
For classrooms, reading initiatives, school and public libraries, educators, and communities creating inclusive learning spaces.
Professionals & organisations
For social workers, counsellors, family-law professionals, child and family organisations, publishers, media, and partners.
Sometimes children simply need an adult who is willing to listen.
Questions about families can come from curiosity, comparison, longing, or something a child has noticed about their own life.
For caregivers and adults
Make space for the conversation.
Those questions do not always need complicated answers. Children may need acknowledgement, reassurance, and an adult who can help them understand that their family is valid.
This book invites all adults—not only parents—into that conversation.
A book meant to be encountered
At home. In classrooms. Across communities.
The ambition is bigger than individual sales. Ishshah wants children and adults to encounter the book wherever conversations about family, difference, and belonging are taking place.
- Schools & classrooms
- Public & school libraries
- Child & family organisations
- Family courts & family services
- Community programmes
- Corporate CSI initiatives
- Publishers & distributors
Book information
Families Are Perfectly Different
Written byIshshah Bashe
Illustrated byTruly Sandra
Recommended age4–8 years
ISBN978-1-0483-3423-4
Begin here
Give the story a home in your family, classroom, library, or community.
Choose an individual copy, request a signed copy, or speak to Ishshah about a larger institutional order.